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THE NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY
AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES. The Birds of America, from Drawings made in the United States and their Territories. New York: J. J. Audubon and Philadelphia: J. B. Chevalier 1840-44. 7 vols., large 8vo, contemporary black morocco gilt, speckled edges, spines worn and faded, hinges and extremities rubbed, pl. 471 misbound between pls. 475 and 476, pl. 465 very slightly cropped, some light soiling, a few minor stains, occasional offsetting. FIRST OCTAVO EDITION, 500 lithographic plates printed in colors and finished by hand by Endicott and Bowen after Audubon; woodcut anatomical diagrams in the text. Nissen/IVB 51; Zimmer p. 22; Wood p. 208; Sabin 2364. Bookplate of Ruthven Deane. (7)
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AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES. The Birds of America, from Drawings made in the United States and their Territories. New York: J. J. Audubon and Philadelphia: J. B. Chevalier 1840-44. 7 vols., large 8vo, contemporary black morocco gilt, speckled edges, spines worn and faded, hinges and extremities rubbed, pl. 471 misbound between pls. 475 and 476, pl. 465 very slightly cropped, some light soiling, a few minor stains, occasional offsetting. FIRST OCTAVO EDITION, 500 lithographic plates printed in colors and finished by hand by Endicott and Bowen after Audubon; woodcut anatomical diagrams in the text. Nissen/IVB 51; Zimmer p. 22; Wood p. 208; Sabin 2364. Bookplate of Ruthven Deane. (7)